"Alcoholic" is the third single from the album Love Is Here

Love Is Here

Love Is Here is the first studio album by indie rock band Starsailor, released on 8 October 2001 . In 2002 'Love is Here' was certified as Platinum in the UK-Track listing:# "Tie Up My Hands" – 5:46# "Poor Misguided Fool" – 3:51...

by British pop band Starsailor

Starsailor (band)

Starsailor is an English post-britpop band, formed in Leigh, Warrington and Greater Manchester. By 2009, they had four charting albums and ten Top 40 singles in the UK since 2001.-Early history:...

, released in 2001. Often wrongly credited as "Daddy Was an Alcoholic", it is one of their most popular songs so far, and also their first single to be in the UK top ten. In the Love is Here DVD, James Walsh

James Walsh (musician)

James Walsh is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and frontman of the band, Starsailor....

 comments that "Alcoholic" is so well known because of the topic of the song.
The video for "Alcoholic" starts outside of a house in the night with an image of James in front of a car that has its lights on.